Sustaining DMI: Leveraging Medicaid to Advance Public Health Data and Surveillance A primer for states: leveraging Medicaid to design and execute a sustainable DMI. This primer describes how to leverage Medicaid to design and execute a sustainable data modernization initiative (DMI). It provides guidance, resources, and practical tools for effective management, strategic planning, and skill development to strengthen sustainability planning. Get the Report (PDF) website yes
This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice offers strategies focused on enhancing safety net services, expanding digital health in underserved areas, strengthening the workforce pipeline, improving Medicaid coverage and quality, and promoting data interoperability between Medicaid and public health systems.
Several ASTHO staff co-authored a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report article examining how linking enrollment data with Medicaid claims data might improve identification of Medicaid members who use tobacco.
Tobacco Use in King County Washington: A Medicaid Data Analysis Report ASTHO Staff, King County Staff, University of Washington Staff Washington state provides an excellent model for integrating Medicaid data to address tobacco use. Commercial tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disability and death in the United States, yet state tobacco control programs often lack adequate surveillance infrastructure to identify tobacco users and reach populations in greatest need. Medicaid beneficiaries in particular would benefit from targeted public health and tobacco control interventions as they bear a disproportionately high burden of tobacco-related illnesses. Washington state addresses this gap through integrating self-reported tobacco use data through Medicaid enrollment with claims data. This integrated data provides the opportunity for health agencies to better target their outreach and assess the impact of tobacco control programs in the Medicaid population. This report examines how Washington state structures its tobacco surveillance and how other state and territorial health agencies can model their own data systems after Washington state’s example. Get the Report (PDF) website yes